extreme detail: Ferrari Dino GT

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well i have been looking forward for this detail for some time now. once again another client of carlo @top gear cars.



this was my most enjoyable detail so far, as you dont see many of these on the road let alone get to detail such a classic.



so on wed`s night set the alarm clock for 5 (getting use to these early starts) . so 5 o`clock came and i was full of beans to get to the dino just 10mins outside Aberdeen. left the house at 6am and headed off to the dino.got to say when i turned off the A96 there was some good roads but when the merc was fully loaded its not to good LOL



so got to the clients house at 8am. got to say when the client opened the door of the garage it was like wow what a classic.



so the client took the dino out of its own carcoon and out of the garage for washing



some before pics























now to get all the gear out and start detailing



so first off was a pre soak with citrus through the foam lance







then a layer of foam on top of the citrus







i didn`t leave to dwell for to long as on thursday it was very hot up in the aberdeen area



so rinsed off then clean the wheels





some meg`s APC was used as they as you can see they were not bad





a swissvax brush to get in to those tight spots



once the wheels were cleaned the dino was treated to the 2 buckets and a lambs wool wash mitt at the soap that was used was zaino Z7



the dino was dryed off with a drying towel and a leaf blower



now that the car was all dryed the dino was put back in the garage (you could fit 4 cars in there and still be able to detail them):doublesho



so first off out with the brinkman























next was to check the paint thickness







so now that i know how much paint is on the dino and is safe to polish the paint work it was time to tape up the dino and take off the covers over the headlights







so out with the makita and the 3m cutting pad and menzerna IP. the IP was spread over the area at notch 1 on the makita, once the area was covered i took the spped up to 900rpm till it broke down a wee bit more then on to 1200rpm to brake it down more, then 1500rpm and finaly 1800rpm with about 10 passes then back down to 900rpm



did this twice to get the paint work looking good again



so then it was time for the menzerna FF and the black finishing pad from 3m

thiswas spread over the area at notch 1 on the makita, once the area was covered i took the spped up to 900rpm till it broke down a wee bit more then on to 1200rpm to brake it down more, then 1500rpm and finaly 1800rpm and then back down to 900rpm









this is a 50/50 on the bootlid but not a good angle i think sorry



so once i was happy with all the paint work it was time for the Zaino to do its magic once again



first off was to give a light spay of Z6 and buff off then some Z2pro mixed with some ZFX, that was left to cure and tested with the finger when it was ready to buff. once buffed it was time to get the Z8 out and a light spray onto the pannel and buff off once again. once done stand back and go WOW



























all chrome work was treated to some swissvax metal polish



the tyres were treated to zaino



for the inside







first off was to polish all chrome work with swissvax







next was to clean all leather with zaino leather cleaner Z9







then the leather was treated to Z10



the windows were then polished with the Z-12 Clear-View Glass Polish



the dino cabin was then hoovered out



















the plastic head light covers were polished with Z-14 Plastic Magic Cleaner & Polish



the engine bay was not to dirty as the dino had just been serviced at top gear cars so it was a light spray of megs APC then some 303

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so by now the time was 8.30pm and it was time to roll the dino outside to enjoy and take more pics of a true classic



















































once we put the dino back in its carcoon it was after 9pm so didn`t get home till after 11pm so a bit of a long day but it was such a joy to detail a lassic ferrari



once again thanks for taking the time to look over this thread as it took me 3hrs to down load all the pics and do the write up lol





mike @ extreme detail

[jimmie jam]

beautiful work on a beautiful car. stunning finish!

[Joel_MD]

There is something special about an Italian car with single stage red paint. You made it look fantastic!



Did you give any thought to using Z-3 instead of Z-2?

[GTFreddy]

What a beautiful car. Good job on the detail.

[Todd@RUPES]

awesome cars! great work mike.

[Old Pirate]

Awesome work Mike, a true work of art.

[BigAl3]

very nice, gotta love black or red when done right... :up

[imported_artikxscout]

Great job Mike!

[jwgarrison]

Great job! How many hours did it take for paint correction alone?

[imported_kwiker]

Wow, I`m so jealous of you. Good job.

[snowskate]

I think that`s as wet as it gets!!!

[iDetail]

I wonder if that Gallardo is jealous of how sexy that ferrari is.

[schybrid]

great work

[imported_JoshVette]

Nice job on a great looking car.



Good work.